related works
Tempest : Concerto for flute and orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Flute and orchestra
Scoring:
fl-solo 2fl(picc) ob eh cl cl-b fg cfg 2h tpt trb trb-b tbb timp 2perc hp str
Cryptogamen : bariton, orkest, 1959, opus 8 / [tekst] (Gerrit Achterberg), Peter Schat
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3233 4321 timp 4perc pf(cel) hp str
Pra : for soprano & orchestra, 2000-2002 / poem by Edward Estlin Cummings, Astrid Kruisselbrink
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl(pic) fl 2ob ob(eh) 2cl cl(cl-b) 2fg fg(cfg) 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 3perc hp pf str(14.12.10.8.6.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3332 4330 timp perc hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans